Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... answered . Where is the wonder that men should know that there is a God ? Such knowledge must indeed be elevated and glorious , but it may well be within the reach of a feeble and limited intelligence . It implies a certain likeness to ...
... answered . Where is the wonder that men should know that there is a God ? Such knowledge must indeed be elevated and glorious , but it may well be within the reach of a feeble and limited intelligence . It implies a certain likeness to ...
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... answered that the atheist and the theist , so far as they are thoughtful and self- consistent men , cannot but view nature very dif- ferently and feel very differently towards it . To the atheist nature may be beautiful and sublime ...
... answered that the atheist and the theist , so far as they are thoughtful and self- consistent men , cannot but view nature very dif- ferently and feel very differently towards it . To the atheist nature may be beautiful and sublime ...
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... answers itself . The believer in God has every motive to virtue which the unbeliever has , and he has his belief in addition , which is the mightiest motive of all . It is often hard enough even for the believing man to conquer his ...
... answers itself . The believer in God has every motive to virtue which the unbeliever has , and he has his belief in addition , which is the mightiest motive of all . It is often hard enough even for the believing man to conquer his ...
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... answers thus cannot have understood the tenor of what we have advanced . If the atheist be right , of course it is not he who takes from life any hope , or strength , or charm which truly belongs to it . That truth must be accepted ...
... answers thus cannot have understood the tenor of what we have advanced . If the atheist be right , of course it is not he who takes from life any hope , or strength , or charm which truly belongs to it . That truth must be accepted ...
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... answer truly to the name of materialism . The name would naturally denote a theory which ex- plains the universe by what is known as matter , or by matter as known through ordinary observa- tion or scientific investigation . There ...
... answer truly to the name of materialism . The name would naturally denote a theory which ex- plains the universe by what is known as matter , or by matter as known through ordinary observa- tion or scientific investigation . There ...
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